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St. Martin's Press
July 2011
On Sale: July 5, 2011
Featuring: Mona Jones; Oneida; Arthur Rook
384 pages
ISBN: 0312571666
EAN: 9780312571665
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Women's Fiction
A sudden death, a never-mailed postcard, and a long buried
secret set the stage for a luminous and heartbreakingly real
novel about lost souls finding one another The Darby-Jones
boardinghouse in Ruby Falls, New York, is home to Mona Jones
and her daughter, Oneida, two loners and self-declared
outcasts who have formed a perfectly insular family unit:
the two of them and the three eclectic boarders living in
their house. But their small, quiet life is upended when
Arthur Rook shows up in the middle of a nervous breakdown,
devastated by the death of his wife, carrying a pink shoe
box containing all his wife's mementos and keepsakes, and
holding a postcard from sixteen years ago, addressed to Mona
but never sent. Slowly the contents of the box begin to fit
together to tell a story—one of a powerful friendship, a
lost love, and a secret that, if revealed, could change
everything that Mona, Oneida, and Arthur know to be true. Or
maybe the stories the box tells and the truths it brings to
life will teach everyone about love—how deeply it runs, how
strong it makes us, and how even when all seems lost, how
tightly it brings us together. With emotional accuracy and
great energy, This Must Be the Place introduces memorable,
charming characters that refuse to be forgotten.
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